This series serves community developers, planners, public administrators and others involved in practice and policy making in the realm of community development. Building on a 40 year history of publishing the journal, Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, the book series seeks to contribute to the growing and rapidly changing knowledge base as a resource for practitioners and researchers alike.
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For more information about the Community Development Society please visit: http://www.comm-dev.org/publications/research-a-practice-series
Series Editor:
Rhonda G. Phillips
Purdue University, USA
Editorial Board:
Mark Brennan
Pennsylvania State University, USA
James Calvin
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Brian McGrath
National University of Ireland
Norman Walzer
Northern Illinois University, USA
Patricia A. Wilson
University of Texas, Austin, USA
Emeritus Board Members:
Jan Flora
Iowa State University, USA
Gary P. Green
University of Wisconsin, USA
Edited
By Norman Walzer, Christopher D. Merrett
June 27, 2025
This edited collection presents successful business succession planning in smaller rural communities where profit margins are low, markets are shrinking, and there are few potential buyers. Finding innovative ways to successfully transition these businesses to new owners is at the heart of ...
By Sarah L. Young, Carly L. Redding
May 13, 2025
Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development. Using an evidence-based curriculum, the book breaks down exactly how to initiate and drive social change in a way that speaks to the unique ...
Edited
By Tom Borrup, Andrew Zitcer
August 01, 2024
Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural ...
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By Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece, Xue Zhang
July 29, 2024
This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy, and also recognizes the changing demographics of schools and their need to integrate with economic ...
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By Norman Walzer, Rhonda Phillips, Robert Blair
September 25, 2023
This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues ...
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By Mark A. Brennan, Rhonda Phillips, Norman Walzer, Brent D. Hales
December 30, 2022
This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective disaster mitigation and the alleviation of suffering in times of crisis. Beginning with the Community Development section, the process, context, and methods for community, engagement, ...
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By Norman Walzer, Christopher Merrett
December 23, 2022
This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway. While reported population declines can paint a bleak picture for rural areas, a different story can be told in looking at the numbers of ...
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By Norman Walzer, Rhonda Phillips, Robert Blair
March 01, 2022
This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues ...
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By Charlie French
February 28, 2022
Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience. Innovation in rural places may come about as a result of new forms of ...
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By Charlie McConnell, Daniel Muia, Anna Clarke
November 26, 2021
International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector...
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By Norman Walzer
July 20, 2021
This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts. Through eleven chapters, authors from various countries use case studies and analyse ...
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By Paul R. Lachapelle, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Cornelia Butler Flora
July 09, 2020
Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America addresses the role of communities in building their capacity to increase resiliency and carry out rural development strategies in Latin America. Resiliency in a community sense is associated with an ability to address stress and respond to shock ...